Sentence examples for flood covering from inspiring English sources

In their oral history, they passed down a story of the flood covering the land.

The Australian newspaper asked the public to remember north-eastern Australia, where some 200,000 people are affected by floods covering an area larger than France and Germany.

The data set is based on a total of 55 scarred trees and allows peak discharge reconstruction of 16 major floods covering the last 113 years.

In 1927, the Mississippi River system flooded, covering a third of Arkansas and destroying infrastructure (including some of those precious roads) and miles of cotton fields, a key product in the state.

Glover was shot outside a strip mall being guarded by police four days after levee failures during HurricaneKatrina led to catastrophic flooding, covering 80percentt of the city in water, knocking out all utilities and leaving tens of thousands stranded — some in their homes, some on rooftops amid the flooding, and many in the Superdome and the New Orleans convention center.

Heavy rains also triggered localized flash flooding, covering several highways.

The rainfall resulted in mudslides and flash flooding, covering several roads and washing away two bridges.

Further inland, heavy rainfall lead to flash flooding, covering roads and entering a few houses.

Damage was heaviest in Shantou where it moved ashore, with flooding covering roads and entering hundreds of homes.

U.S Highway 62 in Jackson County and Highway 5 in Harmon County were both closed due to flash flooding covering their roadways.

FAO today called for more international funds to save the upcoming wheat planting season in Pakistan where floods covering land half the size of Italy have wiped out much of the country's household wheat seed stocks.